I've been using Vector Linux SOHO 5.9 Deluxe for a few days now. I've had no problems with networking, wired or wireless. This morning when I rebooted my computer I found that I had no network connectivity (wired ethernet). An ifconfig -a didn't show my onboard ethernet at all. Only loopback was there. As root I manually did:

modprobe eepro100/etc/rc.d/rc.network restartand all was well with the world. I rebooted again and I was back to square one. I uncommented the hardcoded modprobe statement in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules for the eepro100 and now my networking does survive a reboot. That's an OK workaround for me but it does seem like a bug the developers would want to know about in the new release.